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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, August 17, 2005 Page 13 Summer bass fishing challenging, rewarding By LARRY NIXON Some anglers will tell you, and most believe, that summertime is not the best time to catch big bass. The hotter the sun gets, the better sitting in front of the air conditioner begins to sound. So most anglers will pack it in during the hottest parts of the year, resigning themselves to sipping iced tea instead of going after the fish of their dreams. I fish for a living, nearly year-round, so calling it a day when it gets hot simply is not an option. I have to know how to catch bass in the wind, rain, sleet, snow - and yes, even the heat. I disagree with the common theory that big fish aren’t catch able on long, hot sum- mer days. In fact, I really like to catch big fish during the summer. When it’s hot and sunny, bass -- like a lot of anglers -- like to get under the edge of a shade line and will feed looking out. The fish will suspend under cover, so what I like to do is get up close and pitch right down the edges, letting the bait free fall. In the heat, I will target both structure (be it a dock, a parked barge, rip-rap, lock wall, heavy timber, thick grass) and vegetation. In these environments, I like to pitch a Berkley 4-inch Power Flippin’ Tube, a bait I helped design specifically for these situation, or a Berkley Classic Power Jig. In heavy wood, I might go with a 10-inch Berkley Power Worm with a half- ounce sinker. The big weight is criti- cal at this time to help sink the bait pretty fast, which can go a long way toward making a sometimes slug- gish summer bass excited enough to strike. When targeting summer bass with these finesse pres- entations, make sure to keep an eye on your line. When you pitch a big worm and a sinker into heavy cover, you have to watch the line, be- cause when it stops, you want to immediately lift up on it and see if there’s ten- sion or weight. The perfect line for this is Vanish Transition because it changes color in the sunlight, which allows an- glers to see it better and de- tect the subtlest movements. And because it has little or no stretch, you can strong- arm that big bass out of its shady hangout more easily. There’s no sure-fire way to catch big bass. Dif- ferent presentations work in different places at different times, whether it’s summer, winter or any time in- between. But being on the water is the first step to- wards a successful and memorable summer fishing trip. So if you’re out there, find the cover and have the gear you need to be able to rip them out of it. (Larry Nixon is a for- mer Bassmaster Classic winner with more than $1.5 million in career earn- ings on the BASS Tour.) CATCHIN’ AIR - J.C. Warner, 13 (at left) and Brian Hun- tamer, 10, (above) are among scores of kids who flock to the skateboard ramps at Jubilee Park on summer eve- nings. The ‘SK8CJ’ facility was recently repaired and repainted by motivated youths in collaboration with The Shining Stars and CrossQuest Expeditions. (‘I.V. News’ photo) Bike bucks for SAR’s GPS Each fall, Jena Jensen of Cycle Analysis in Jack- sonville hosts the Cycle Cross bike-athon in South- ern Oregon. Vendors donate items to be raffled at the end of each race, and the proceeds from the event are donated to Jo- sephine County Search And Rescue (SAR) in memory of Nicholas Jensen, said SAR. The donation from last year’s event was in excess of $6,000, and was used to build a portable Automatic Position Reporting System (APRS) node, and to pur- chase GPS units. The base station shows the exact location in real time of each search team, important for searcher safety, said SAR. When searchers locate a missing person, their loca- tion is immediately identi- fied to staff in the command post so that location can be passed to emergency medi- cal responders in a much more timely manner. The base station also creates a permanent record of the areas searched. Josephine County SAR said that it appreciates Jen- sen, who since the death of her son Nicholas has do- nated more than $100,000 donated to SAR. from the Cycle Cross event, and the Nicholas Jensen Memorial Fund. The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. - G. K. 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